Golden Hour
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Photo & Video | $1.99 | Roger Moffatt | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
The web version of the Golden Hour was voted cool site of the day by America's Digital Goddess and has been featured by Canon Europe, PC World and a host of forums and blogs around the world. Now available for the iPhone, iPad and more detailed than ever.
Named by Digital Photography School as one of only 3 MUST HAVE productivity apps for photographers.
Now featuring your own bookmarks for keeping track of favourite places. Preloaded with some renowned photographic locations around the world.
New mapping features allow you to select a location faster and more accurately than ever before, PLUS access to the online geonames database of millions of places.
This application does not need access to the internet and is therefore great for iPod touch owners as well.
Features.
Our easy to use interface has 4 primary tabs putting the important information at your fingertips whether you are an architect needing to know where the sun will be on a given day or a professional photographer planning their next photo shoot.
World Sun Clock display showing more detail than a simple day-night terminator as we colour code the golden hour and more. Rotate your iPhone or iPod to landscape orientation to get detailed timings on key events of the day.
Sun Azimuth and Elevation display, find exactly where the sun will be in the sky for any time of day.
Golden Hour display, the same great graph that our website users will be familiar with, this tab shows the altitude of the sun throughout the 24 hours of the current day with markers for Sunrise, Sunset and the Golden Hour. Explore any date of the year with the slider or new improved date picker and nudge dates up or down simply by tapping to the left or right.
Our location finder allows you to drill down through our comprehensive database of nearly 200,000 carefully selected locations from every country in the world. Every country or territory has a full colour flag and a fully indexed and searchable list of locations. For each location we display the latitude and longitude plus other useful information such as approximate population and Olsen Timezone. Now featuring access to the online geonames database plus location setting via the built in maps.
Features a complete years worth of the amazing NASA blue marble satellite images of earth - see how winter and summer transform our planet as the snow comes and goes as you change dates.
Calculations and Accuracy
For maximum accuracy and reliability, a tried and tested C++ library developed by astronomers performs the astronomical calculations. The library implements the high accuracy algorithms in the definitive reference book by Jan Meeus and has been in use for over 10 years.
Like the app? Please remember to rate it in the store, and if you have feedback or questions, please do get in touch using the customer service links provided. We love hearing directly from our users and the more of you that get in touch, the better any future versions can be!
Reviews
Golden Hour User
Fotofred1
Works well for a very portable program. Gives good starting point ti wirk with.
Eh...
NeutronTwo
It's a bit difficult to read.. But pretty cool app.. Thanks! Edit: This is a very confusing app.....
Indispensable photographer's tool
vgcurrie
I use it all the time. IPad version is superior to the iPhone, but it's great to always have it. In fact I just used it to realize I can't make it to the ocean in time fir the sunset so I'm going to shoot in-town instead.
Surprisingly bad UI
mattdm.org
With the high reviews and nice-at-glance screenshots, I expected something more. Unfortunatey, the user interface is very clunky. On the main "golden hour" screen, you set the date to view with a _slider_, of all things — good luck finding a specific day! The other screens are similarly unfunctional. Were this a free or even 99¢ app, I might be a little more charitable, but at the price, it's really a disappointment.
Great!
Amybethunephoto
I really like this app. It works really well. Just two small changes and I'd love it even more--ability to type in a date rather than scroll. And ability to pick a date next year!
Golden Hour
Fishermanlarry
I found it very frustrating not to be able to enter lat/long for those places not found. In addition, I was quite surprised at the number of places for which I searched and could not find.
Ugh!
SeeJaneShoot
Trying to select a date is impossible!!!! The slider is a ridiculous way to choose a date...it's too sensitive and I cannot get it to stay on the date even if I'm lucky enough to see the date I want. So disappointed!
Pretty good overall
Shockrider
I use it a lot could be a little bit better. Date bar is just a little too sensitive almost impossible to hit the right day
Could be better
Dana Moyer
Trying to set the date is impossible! I use this app often & I hope they fix the date issue in the next update. Update! My son bought this app and figured out that if you tap below the date line then it either advances one day or goes back one day precisely as it should. Don't tap the line itself, tap in the space below it. So happy that he figured this out!
